• 0 Posts
  • 22 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 15th, 2023

help-circle
  • megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneMedium Rare Rule
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    edit-2
    10 days ago

    So, the interior of steak being raw is fine. Due to the nature of it, it’s unlikely there will any pathogens inside of it, perhaps on the outside because it is exposed and could have been contaminated, but the interior is safe due to being… well not being exposed. Of course there are exceptions but generally it is safe so long as the exterior has been cooked to a point where any pathogens are dead.

    Ground beef is another thing entirely since any contamination that was on the outside has been mixed in, and thus it should be cooked through thoroughly.


  • megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneMedium Rare Rule
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    24
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    10 days ago

    The discussion about how to cook steak has been “medium rare is the best way to cook steak” for a long time now, so I think a lot of people just assume what ever doneness they like their steak cooked to must be “medium rare”.

    The image would best be described as Blue, and it’s fine to take a steak blue if that’s what you prefer.



  • megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    21 days ago

    Ok, well, I suspect most people aren’t going to be willing to pay that, or at the very least will buy significantly less games over all.

    I suppose from a business sense the question is; will a reduced number of games sold at a higher margin be more profitable over all than more games sold at a lower margin?

    They’ll probably just loose disproportionate market share to games vendors and platforms that aren’t selling at such a high price point, even if most of the major consoles fallow suite, i think that will just hurt the market share of consoles as a whole, phones have gotten shockingly good and might devour the low end of the market more than they already have if there are some shake ups in how app stores work, and there are a lot of plenty capable mid range gaming PC handheld that are competitive with consoles.









  • megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoGreentext@sh.itjust.worksMurica
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    2 months ago

    If you were to say, ride a bike from Washington D.C. to Portland Oregon, they money saved on gas, maintenance, insurance, and lease payments, would amount to three times the hours of work to pay, assuming a median U.S income.

    This is a ridiculous example, but, frankly, saying our main mode of transit should be cars because we might want to take a long road trip once a year is absurd. It’s an outlier use case that could be addressed with other systems more effectively.







  • megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    3 months ago

    It’s absurd because Biden wasn’t doing anything, like he was upholding the status quo, with limited efforts to patch up some issues.

    Trump is straight up trying to gut the federal government and sell it for parts as well as legitimately trying to take away people’s rights, if not straight up make their existence a crime.

    He’s also trying to do this with a pretty weak mandate. Most people who did want him wanted him for a specific policy and ignored the rest.

    So he’s creating a huge amount of backlash while only appeasing a small group with each action.


  • I think it’s less that they intentionally under deliver, and more that how the actually run leads to bad products. The executives and consultants brought in try and run studios like they’re software companies. Which, yes, technically video games are software, but they’re more than that.

    With a lot of software, a short turn around is important if you want to make sure your product isn’t outpaced by a competitor before it even launches. bugs can be patched out over time so shipping with a few bugs is fine so long as you’re getting to market as soon as possible. Breaking the project up in to lots of small items that can be independently worked on without interfering or relying on other items means you can expand the team easily to keep up with deadline.

    On a video game, consumers care more about the experience of the released product and less about it being the most technically advanced. Huge bugs at release mutes any excitement, even if the issues are patched out later. Multiple teams working on a bunch of items in parallel will struggle to make a cohesive experience and the design guidelines put in place to make this possible will mute creativity. A handful of cohesive long quest lines makes for a better RPG than a 100 little independent quest scattered over the map.

    Better to have smaller teams that work over longer time frames and release a product when it’s ready, 150 million dollars will make a much better product with a 100 person studio over 6 years than a 300 person studio in 2 years.